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Look at the tea party's rhetoric. that's where this take back america stuff started. these were people looking at the colonial period as the idyllic period in the american history before you had unions and racial integration. that sort of america in which african-americans were three-fifths of a person. that was the era they saw as idyllic. to your point about 2010, let's not compare apples to oranges. what's in midterms is minority voters and younger voters stay home. sure, you can win a pennsylvania or an ohio or a michigan in an off-year election when basically white voters are the ones com...

>> i'm a free market guy that thinks those things work. >> i love liberty and the free value guy. >> you rigider. you believe the constitution in how it's women, where it leaves out blacks and women. >> it doesn't leaf out black. >> three-fifths. keep it like that. >> the three-fifths compromise was done of opposition to slavery, not because of support for slavery. they didn't want them to have the same votes. >> think we should have changed? >> of course we should change it. but the purpose was inherent in -- >> sean: wait. there is another point. framers in their wisdom put in place a system...

>> i'm a free market guy that thinks those things work. >> i love liberty and the free value guy. >> you rigider. you believe the constitution in how it's women, where it leaves out blacks and women. >> it doesn't leaf out black. >> three-fifths. keep it like that. >> the three-fifths compromise was done of opposition to slavery, not because of support for slavery. they didn't want them to have the same votes. >> think we should have changed? >> of course we should change it. but the purpose was inherent in -- >> sean: wait. there is another point. framers in their wisdom put in place a system...

Movement needed someone like this. they needed a 91-year-old world war ii veteran that everyone can say looks like my grandpa and say why is he on the nonvoter rolls. the first batch targeted these 2600 voters. three-fifths were in miami-dade county, which is overwhelmingly democratic and 20% of those voters were actually voters. they weren't noncitizens, they were eligible voters. you look at the number. if you take 20% of 182,000, that's 35,000 potentially eligible voters that florida would take away the right to vote for. >> i want to bring in judith brown co-advancement project. and there'...

beaten and bloody? this is tape taken of george zimmerman the night he shot and killed trayvon martin when he claimed the teenager bashed his head and broke his nose and made him fear for his life. >> trayvon martin said something to the effect of you're going to die now or you're going to die tonight. >> but martin's father says this tape is the icing on the cake. it's like a horror movie with fire as the beast. [ bleep ]. >> there it is. right here. >> my gosh. >> it's okay. >> this is a real horror story. a family barely escapes a fast moving wildfire. one of the kids catching the...